It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/zandadoum on 2025-07-02 06:48:34.

Story time

It started as a simple backup NAS. A simple 2 bay Synology. This was in 2019 or so.

Soon a 5 bay extension unit was added, so I could rip my dvd and make a media server.

The NAS cpu wasn’t good enough as my library grew. So a minipc was added.

By this time I also started to datahoard stuff. Some of it didn’t need much space, like backing up all of gamefaqs or that one subtitle site that closed. Other did occupy a lot, like photo archives, old Linux ISOs, etc.

The minipc wasn’t enough anymore either if I wanted to host a few more docker stuff. So 2 more were added for a proxmox cluster.

And now I notice how every year I consume 7-10TB, requiring to spend 400€ on yet another HDD. Which I can barely afford, I live in Spain and I am not swimming in money right now.

Talking about Spain: it get effing hot here. Dusty too. Right now it’s 30ºC outdoor. 28º inside with a/c off. 32º in my office. A freaking oven.

The cpus are at 60º, the HDD at around 45-48º, the electric bill is through the roof (because other appliances as well to be fair) and don’t even get me started of running a/c almost 24/7 in the summer

Now I need to upgrade HDD again. If only serverpartsdeals had a warehouse in the EU. shipping and import tax almost doubles costs. I find a decent Toshiba somewhere like 60€ cheaper than an EXO but then I read bad opinions about Toshiba.

It is at this time that I feel “too old (and poor) for this shit” and my wife comes in and sees me pulling my hair out while comparing prices and reading reviews while sweating like a pig at 27°C (a/c was on)

“What’s wrong?”

And after I explain

“Why don’t you just delete some stuff?”

Yeah. Why don’t I?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Rustpit on 2025-07-02 05:01:28.

I'm capturing VHS tapes from the composite output of my VCR. I bought a cheap composite-to-USB card (dongle). Use virtualdub to record the stream on my PC to AVI. However, this card, all others I've come across, do more than I want. Specifically, they all force, in hardware, deinterlace and upscale (either 720p or 1080p).

I'd rather do the deinterlacing and any scaling in software (e.g., avisynth, filters, and vdub), so I have full control over the result.

Has anyone come across either composite to HDMI or USB dongle, or a PCIe card with composite in, that will maintain the native 480i? Seems like some old card would do this.

As a test, I used an old Canon HV10 in passthrough mode, into PC via 1394/FireWire, in DV mode, and captured with windv. This maintained the 480i. But, the HV10 firmware halts on the copy protection signal. In my defense, these are VHS tapes I own and I don't plan to distribute, sell, or share the captures. Just want to preserve the content before it deteriorates.

Thanks for any guidance or tips.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Corleone_Vito on 2025-07-02 04:45:32.

My Budget is around $500 without drives, I choose Board because it supports upto 6 drives and my Storage wish is 100tb, here's the list:Does Amd supports plex?

[ 1 ] Case: Fractal design node 304 - 120

[ 2 ] Board: ASRock B650M Pro RS - 130

[ 3 ] RAM - 16GB (2x8GB) DDR5-5200 ECC UDIMM – ~$70

[ 4 ] CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 8300G (APU, 4C/8T, Radeon 740M iGPU) – ~$120

[ 5 ] Power supply: Corsair CX450 (450W, 80+ Bronze) – ~$60

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Valiran9 on 2025-07-02 04:02:29.

Mediaminer is an old fanfiction site and not very well supported by the owners, but it was still distressing to see it inaccessible when I checked it out this evening. There were several fanfics I liked on there that weren’t posted anywhere else, so I’m hoping one of the hoarders on this sub has a backup they’d be willing to share.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JuanManuelFangio32 on 2025-07-02 03:40:39.

as titled... want something not too expensive and easy to upload/download my stuff...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Necessary_Isopod3503 on 2025-07-02 03:03:49.

I have a fairly big optical collection that I maintain and I still burn optical from time to time.

I do understand the risks and the issues regarding optical media, with the size limitations and possible low longevity. However I do enjoy using optical for SOME things still despite having plenty of HDs and SSDs...

However something that's has been bugging me for some time, especially after Sony announced ceasing it's production of BDRs recently, for how long will optical media production last?

When will it become unprofitable to the point of no longer being produced, to the detriment of those who still use it?

I know most optical media if not all, including CDRs, DVDrs and BDRs are almost all exclusively produced in Asia, but with the ongoing trend of streaming and more and more places getting internet access, and also the dying state of official DVDs and Blurays, i wonder if in the next 10-15 years or more, even less maybe, optical media stops production completely.

Basically the final nail in the coffin, making it fully dead media, as in having no new products or releases whatsoever.

What are your opinions on this? Do you believe that somehow there will be a reason to continue to produce this media?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/miscawelo on 2025-07-02 02:37:37.

I'm in the process of moving my ZFS pool from my Proxmox server to a dedicated TrueNAS (Community Edition) server and since I'm upgrading to larger drives, I'm also testing different pool configurations.

So far performance has been as expected with my testing config, but I’m seeing some behavior that I’m unsure about. For testing I created a pool with a single mirrored vdev (Toshiba N300 drives: 7200 rpm and 512 MB buffer, if it matters), some datasets and different share types. The issue appears on the NFS share: when transferring a single large file (~120 GiB MKV file) from Proxmox, at first I get the expected speeds of around gigabit, but I do see consistent dips in both network and disk I/O.

I've been digging through docs and forum posts to learn about vdev types and performance tuning. I don’t think I’d benefit much from any kind of vdev like ZIL, for example (maybe a metadata vdev but even that seems unnecessary for my use case).

That said, I’ve read that a SLOG might help in this specific case? Since NFS is sync by default.

My main questions:

• Are these performance dips expected with just a single mirrored vdev? Will adding the other 3 mirrors (for a total of 4) smooth things out?
• Would a SLOG improve this specific case scenario? If not, what else might help optimize large file transfers over NFS?

Below are the network and I/O graphs during the transfer. Please let me know if more info is needed, any insight is helpful. Thanks in advance!

Disk I/O

Network activity

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CaptainLarryLobster on 2025-07-02 01:02:16.

Hey all, I've got a homelab running raid 5. I'm out of storage and want to upgrade. I've decided that the redundancy isn't necessary in my application.I found two cheap SAS drives. I want to transfer my data to these drives and then reformat the raid and run it my drives with mergeFS. My case only has room for 6 drives so I'm planning on using the two extra smaller drives in another system.

My issue is that i have the drives running on an HBA through the only PCIE slot on the board. What would be the best way to connect the SAS drives for the data transfer prior to putting them in the system.

I've tried researching this but I can't find anything to help with this.

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Titan_91 on 2025-07-02 00:39:04.

https://archive.org/details/the-amanda-show-dvd-isos

If someone wants to upload ISOs of any discs they have to the Internet Archive that would be great. Season 2 is what I have so far. This is preservation, not piracy. These are from 2012 and have not been available for sale in many years.

Nobody has shared the full DVD box set ISO images and seasons 1 and 3 are very expensive and hard to find. If you have any discs from Seasons 1 and 3, please consider uploading and sharing them. You can upload your own item to Archive.org or share a link and I will add it to my item and give you credit. Of the 3 popular Nickelodeon sitcom series, (All That, Kenan & Kel, and The Amanda Show) only the latter has ever had a home media release.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/HTWingNut on 2025-07-02 00:11:35.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Subject-Standard-676 on 2025-07-01 22:56:55.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170120104639if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGJlMkfaQk

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Praxeria on 2025-07-01 22:34:29.

Video game companies are destroying video games, and soon as support ends the game can become unplayable such as The Crew. Which is unethical and frustrating to the players who still wanted to play the game. However there's a movement called Stop Killing Games. It's political movement aimed at tacking the industry issue at large and we need your help. By helping you able to keep your games. The movement takes place within the EU and UK. Only citizens can vote for the innative. The movement is NOT asking for games to be supported endlessly but instead have some end of life plan. There's two games that come in mind that I have personal experience in. Spellbreak community edition and Knockout City. If you have anymore question the FAQ can answer them or the FAQ video can. I would highly recommending to vote if you can.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/didentifier on 2025-07-01 22:00:32.

Does anyone know if there is a way of finding deleted youtube videos? I started this a few days ago, stopped it to watch with my girlfriend and now it's deleted.

https://www.youtube.com/live/9rKDzBgLkgk

and here is the relevant article

https://www.vice.com/en/article/watch-the-cold-blooded-rivalry-between-hells-angels-and-pagans-mc/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ex-oh on 2025-07-01 22:21:15.

Well, I bought a reconditioned 12T HGST drive a few months ago, and it died last week. Platters are spinning but it keeps making a clicking sound.

Is there anything to try to see if I can revive it? (I'm thinking back to the nineties when sometimes drives wouldn't spin up but you could tilt them and it would get them going)

I can't find any solid info on recovery service prices, but it seems like it's in the ballpark of 2k. Is that the reality?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/clanginator on 2025-07-01 21:20:29.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/technicallyaplumber on 2025-07-01 20:36:11.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/anirudhpulikonda on 2025-07-01 20:32:20.

I'm looking for a 24TB HDD from Seatgate:

1. ST24000NM000C - Recertified but Exos, I assume it's server grade - $280

2. ST24000DM001 - Baracudda, Not server grade - $250

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hot-Calligrapher9802 on 2025-07-01 20:07:13.

Hi friends!

I've got about 100TB of stuff, and our truenas isnt working right. It's shutting down gracefully. Nothing in the logs. We've made a fresh truenas install, imported the zfs pool, and still shutsdown randomly. The datas still there, we can still see it in TrueNAS Community Edition (SCALE) on Linux.

So thinking about how to fix this... possibly putting all the data on the cloud, wiping it all, and then put it all back? Also thought about burning stuff to blu rays..

but all of this is super expensive... even the temporary cloud storage seems to be like $400 for a month of 100TB.

Any ideas? :[

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/steviefaux on 2025-07-01 19:53:16.

So I did a search and found the old threads. There were two main suggestions. Epson FastFoto FF 680W or ScanSnap iX1600. I don't really need the wifi option, fine with cable.

Looking at the reviews on Amazon for FastFoto a couple of people said the software was poor yet another said it was amazing.

Once done, would like to do the negatives as well but know would need a difference device for that.

Surprised the Epson still expensive considering how old it is.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Elk1984 on 2025-07-01 18:48:37.

I'm currently running 3 x ReadyNAS RN104s which have given decent service but are reaching the end of their useful life (at least for me). The last upgrade to 4 x 8Tb per unit (Giving about 21.5Tb capacity) was problematic. Apart from the time spent shuffling data to the new disks, I was finding regular BTRFS failures (with rebuilds that just took weeks!) until I turned all caching and performance options off.

I'm thinking of replacing the whole lot with a single self-built NAS based around a Gen-5 Core i7 processor, 8 hot swappable bays and a decent amount of on board RAM - probably 64Gb.

I'm also looking to fit a 2.5Gb Network card as Gigabit LAN isn't cutting it with my homelab cluster. I have the house networked with CAT 6e so think I've got the necessary networking in place (bar upgrading a few switches in key areas).

Disk wise, I'm looking at these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0B94KG3J9?psc=1

Which would give a total capacity of 120Tb in RAID 6 (currently not supported by the ReadyNAS units) and far greater than the 63Tb I currently have.

Before I spend anything, I'd love comments on the suitability of this kind of build. Any warnings, things I should be considerig. Plus a recommendation of what software to run - I was thinking of TrueNAS Scale:

https://www.truenas.com/download-truenas-community-edition/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ProfitValuable2130 on 2025-07-01 18:39:43.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Embarrassed-Sky5466 on 2025-07-01 14:49:17.

Are you happy with provider? Have you ever experienced a failed restore? What happened?

Want to know about your experiences

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AllesMeins on 2025-07-01 09:22:38.

Hi,

I'm using an external 4-disk bay connected via USB-C for backup and data storage purposes. Since I still have one disk-slot left I was wondering whether adding a parity-disk with SnapRAID for an additional layer of security is a good idea. But before I make that investment I've a few questions, that hopefully some of you could help me answer:

• Is it generally considered a good idea using something like SnapRAID on external drives?
• I've currently about 25 TB of data spread over three disks in that bay, how long would a regular SnapRAID sync roughly take (just a very rough estimation, are we talking days, hours, minutes)?
• Does the Sync-Time depend on how much data is changed? Most of the data will probably stay the same, so will this fasten sync times or will it still do a complete disk scan every time?
• How does SnapRAID deal with being disrupted? There will be cases in which the machine isn't running long enough for a complete sync. How does SnapRAID behave if I turn it off before it has completed. Does it support some kind of resume?
• Are there any other tools I should look at instead?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheUnlikeliestChad on 2025-07-01 04:07:57.

I like '80s new wave and the only place I can find the old music videos is on YouTube. I've tried ripping them using various websites and video quality is often potato quality, which I can deal with, but when I play them all, the volume is wildly different for each song. I usually play them using VLC and connecting my laptop to a projector.

I'm more than willing to re-download them, or re-formate them. I'm willing to use a different program to play them all. I just want the ability to play them all at a uniform volume level and without needing access to the internet.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kangruixiang on 2025-07-01 01:02:58.

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